Travel Medicine
Travel Health – Preparing Your Patients to Travel Abroad Safely (CCCEP)
As international travel resumes, pharmacists have an increasingly important role in protecting Canadian travellers from travel-related illnesses.
This program will help pharmacists make pre-travel health recommendations and advise patients on appropriate prevention strategies to reduce the risks of common travel-related diseases (i.e. travellers’ diarrhea, hepatitis A&B, typhoid, and rabies) and to prevent mosquito-borne diseases during travel.
DURATION
45 min
PROFESSION
Pharmacy
# OF CREDITS
1.00
ACCREDITATION
CCCEP
EXPIRY DATE
2023-11-22
As international travel resumes, pharmacists have an increasingly important role in protecting Canadian travellers from travel-related illnesses.
This program will help pharmacists make pre-travel health recommendations and advise patients on appropriate prevention strategies to reduce the risks of common travel-related diseases (i.e. travellers’ diarrhea, hepatitis A&B, typhoid, and rabies) and to prevent mosquito-borne diseases during travel.
This program has received an educational grant or in-kind support from Valneva.
Faculty
- Michael Boivin, RPh
- Kelly Haggerty, BSCPhm, CTH, NCMP
- Dr. Aisha Khatib, MD, CCFP (EM), CTravMed, DTM&H, CtropMed
Learning objectives
Upon completion of this continuing education program participants will be better able to:
- Make pre-travel health recommendations based on the patient’s medical history, travel destination, and travel itinerary
- Implement prevention strategies to reduce the risks of common travel-related diseases
- Provide an overview of common mosquito-borne diseases and how to prevent them during travel
- Identify travellers requiring a referral to a travel medicine specialist or travel clinic.
Accreditation
CCCEP File Number: 1066-2022-3525-I-P